Let a 1865 dating ad give you tips on how to woo like a Victorian lover

Are we certain that men have actually evolved in the last century or so? Sure it may seem like there are way more genuinely ~nice guys~ now, but do they offer to buy you bread and butter?

Didn’t think so!

Max Roser, a researcher for the University of Oxford, posted a photo of an 1865 newspaper dating ad. The headline reads “Chance for a Spinster” and though “spinster” is mostly used as insult now, at the time he was just trying to call out all the single ladies.